Sammy Davis Jr.

Michael Parrish, 67, who oversaw the reinvention of the Sunday magazine in the Los Angeles Times in the mid-1980s, died Friday of liver failure while under hospice care in the Los Angeles area, friends said.

When the newspaper replaced the Home magazine it had long published with the broader-interest Los Angeles Times magazine, Parrish served as its editor, from 1985 to 1989. During his tenure, the magazine's reporting and writing was repeatedly recognized by the Greater Los Angeles Press Club. (The editorial department stopped publishing the magazine in 2008.)

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